Check Out All of Spidey’s New Suits in Spider-Man: Far From Home
Spider-Man (Tom Holland) is a man of many suits. This has been largely thanks to his connection to his mentor (and benefactor) Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.). What we know about Spider-Man: Far From Home (aside from folks loving it) is that (spoiler alert) Peter is dealing with living in a post-Tony world. This means he’s going to have to step up. What it doesn’t mean, it turns out, is that Peter Parker won’t have a bunch of cool new suits just because of Tony’s sacrifice in Avengers: Endgame. ...
The First Queen & Slim Trailer Reveals Lena Waithe & Melina Matsoukas’s Hotly-Anticipated Collaboration
There’s a lot to be excited about here, folks. We’ve got our first look at Queen & Slim, the hotly-anticipated collaboration between Emmy-winning writer Lena Waithe and visionary director Melina Matsoukas. Scripted by Waithe, the first black woman to win an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for Aziz Ansari’s Netflix series Master of None, Queen & Slim features Get Out and Widows star Daniel Kaluuya and newcomer Jodie Turner-Smith in a story that sets them on the run from the police...
How Mood & Lighting Established Tone in The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Last Black Man in San Francisco marks the feature debut for director Joe Talbot, an allegory that puts a spotlight on the childhood dream and the effects of gentrification.
Inspired by the real-life story of Jimmie Fails, who plays a fictionalized version of himself, Fails, with the help of his best friend Mont (Jonathan Majors), go on a journey to take back the family home his grandfather built but lost ownership of when he was a young child...
Laura Dern on Finding Renata in Big Little Lies
When Laura Dern took on the character of Renata Klein for HBO’s mammoth hit Big Little Lies three years ago, she knew exploring the emotional life of this alpha female wasn’t going to be her focal point. The character is tough, all business, and doesn’t have a lot of friends – not the least of which her co-stars’ characters, played by Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley and Zoe Kravitz (and, this year, Meryl Streep). “It was really knowing Renata was the…B-word,” she laughs...
Black Widow Adds the Excellent Ray Winstone to the Cast
While Marvel Studios has yet to officially confirm that they’re making a Black Widow prequel, all the pieces are falling into a place for their Black Widow prequel. Collider reports that the great Ray Winstone, best known to American audiences for playing Mr. French Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, has joined the cast. Winstone is the type of actor that a director loves, infinitely moldable into a variety of roles. Scorsese then cast him again in his animated masterpiece Hugo...
A new Stranger Things Season 3 Trailer Teases Big Trouble in Hawkins
“It doesn’t make sense,” Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) says at the opening of this new Stranger Things season 3 trailer. “I closed the gate.” Ah, but this is Hawkins, Indiana, kid—trouble can’t be locked out.
You have to hand it to Netflix, they’ve really kept season 3 of Stranger Things under wraps. We’ve only seen one trailer, one clip, a teaser, and some other bits and bites about the upcoming season...
Behold the Teaser for Paul Thomas Anderson & Thom Yorke’s Netflix Musical Anima
Yeah, this is a dream team.
Paul Thomas Anderson has teamed up—again—with a member of Radiohead. Anderson has deployed Radiohead’s polymathic musical genius Jonny Greenwood as his composer since his 2007 masterpiece There Will Be Blood, all the way up to his most recent film, 2017’s Phantom Thread. Now he and Radiohead’s genius frontman, Thom Yorke, have collaborated on a new short film for Netflix...
Jaws Created the Summer Blockbuster 44 Years Ago Today
It was on this day, 44-years ago, that Steven Spielberg created the summer movie season. Before Jaws, summer was a time for sunbathing, not heading out to the multiplex. Then on June 20, 1975, a 28-year old Spielberg delivered a film that changed the calculus of how films are distributed. His game-changing thriller about a rogue Great White with a taste for human flesh marks the moment the film industry changed. Once Jaws dominated the box office and the imaginations of moviegoers,...
What Secrets Might a Black Widow Movie Reveal?
Now that we know Marvel is returning to Comic-Con’s Hall H this July, we can start to speculate what they’re going to reveal in the grandest venue in San Diego. With Marvel’s Phase 3 about to officially come to a close with the release of Spider-Man: Far From Home, there’s a lot of change afoot at Disney’s super studio. They wouldn’t be taking over Hall H if they weren’t ready to share their vision of what’s to come...
Early Reactions to Spider-Man: Far From Home Praise Post Endgame Adventure
As the concussive power of Avengers: Endgame finally starts to lift, Marvel is just about to release Jon Watts’ Spider-Man: Far From Home, the final film in Phase 3. In the past, every Avengers film has been the shot and the follow-up film was the chaser. We went from the first Avengers to lighter Iron Man 3. Avengers: Age of Ultron was followed by the first,...
Early Reactions to Midsommar Hype Horror Masterpiece
Jordan Peele loved it, and now it seems others who have gotten an early look at Ari Aster‘s Midsommar agree—this film is a wicked, wild horror masterpiece. It’s also funny! Early reactions to Aster’s follow-up to his smashing, terrifying 2018 debut Hereditary are starting to surface online. The reactions are essentially raves. Aster seems to have pulled off the very tricky feat of nailing his second film. This is what Peele himself just accomplished...
Avengers: Endgame Returning to Theaters With Extra Footage
If you thought that the original theatrical release of Avengers: Endgame could have been a little longer, you’re going to be very happy indeed. The Russo Brothers’ colossal critical and commercial smash is returning to theaters with additional footage. The scoop comes from ComicBook.com‘s Brandon Davis, who spoke with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige at the Spider-Man: Far From Home press junket in London. (Yes, there will be spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen Endgame yet.)
“We are doing that,”...
Marvel is Coming to Comic-Con’s Hall H—What are They Coming With?
Well, this is big news in the world of film. Deadline reports that Marvel is returning to Comic-Con’s Hall H after sitting out last year’s fest. So far, no one knows what kind of lineup they’re bringing to San Diego, which means there’s plenty of room for professional and amateur speculators to start guessing.
Considering we’ve just witnessed the culmination of a 22-film art with Avengers: Endgame, and the wrap on Marvel’s Phase 4 with the upcoming Spider-Man: Far From Home, ...
The Game of Thrones Prequel Pilot has Begun Filming
If you’re still not quite over the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones, you’re not alone. HBO’s record-breaking series has only just ended after a shortened, controversial final six episodes. Regardless of how you felt about the ending, GoT became something truly rare in our culture of atomized interests, infinite options and niche programming—must-see programming that millions of people dutifully waited to watch. Considering the success of the series and the richness of George R...
Former Mythbusters Cohost Built a Real-Life Iron Man Suit That Actually Flies
If anyone was going to be able to build an actual, working Iron Man suit, former Mythbuster cohost Adam Savage would have been a great bet to pull it off. Savage revealed the suit for the first episode of his new Discovery series Savage Builds. He worked with a group of engineers who helped him 3D-print a titanium suit that took its inspiration directly from Tony Stark himself. Folks, this suit actually flies...
Spencer Averick on Finding Truth & Humanity in the Edit of When They See Us
Netflix rarely releases viewer numbers, but on June 12th, the streaming service tweeted that Ava DuVernay’s miniseries When They See Us has been its most-watched content in the US since the show’s premiere on May 31st. In the UK, When They See Us has been running second only to Black Mirror. But audiences hardly need to turn to Black Mirror’s fictional, dystopian worlds to watch the miscarriage of justice play out on the small screen...
New Spider-Man: Far From Home Images & Footage Tease Ambitious Final Film in Marvel’s Phase 3
There are a few things we’ve learned about Jon Watts’ Spider-Man: Far From Home that speaks to how this film is a lot more than just the chaser to Avengers: Endgame‘s very strong shot. One is the fact that it deals directly (spoiler alert for those of you who haven’t seen Endgame) with Tony Stark’s death. The second is that Far From Home teases out the repercussions of Endgame‘s time-traveling madness by introducing the multiverse...
How Russian Doll’s Cinematographer Owned the Night in Netflix’s hit Series
“Joel was amazing for coming up with solutions for turning New York into a Russian Doll city.” The Big Apple already boasts its share of Russian dolls, mobsters, peroshkis, and more, of course, but cinematographer Chris Teague is instead referring his gaffer, Joel Minnich, and the recent hit Netflix series of the same title, which he shot.
Starring co-creator, co-producer (and for one episode, director) Natasha Lyonne, Russian Doll follows the various embedded and unraveling realities of Nadia,...
Here’s Your First Look at Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story
There isn’t a genre that Steven Spielberg can’t tackle. The legendary director has worked in nearly every genre, save one. He’s delivered groundbreaking CGI spectacles from Jurassic Park to Ready Player One, and taut espionage thrillers like Bridge of Spies or Munich. He’s obviously a master of sci-fi (not only does Ready Player One qualify, but so does Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., A.I., and War of the Worlds,...
Carmen Ejogo on her Pivotal Role in True Detective’s Season Three
In season three of True Detective, creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto returns to the series’ Southern Gothic roots, with two detectives, Vietnam vet Wayne “Purple” Hays (Mahershala Ali) and Roland West (Stephen Dorff) trying to solve the murder of one child and the disappearance of another in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Hays takes the lead on the case in 1980 and is doing desk work and starting to lose his memory by the time we reach 1990 (West,...
